Scientists have unearthed a huge two-metre (6.5-foot) dinosaur bone in a winegrowing village in southwestern France dubbed a 'national treasure' ...
ANGEAC-CHARENTE, France: Scientists have unearthed a huge 2m dinosaur bone in a wine-growing village in southwestern France dubbed a"national treasure" for its prehistoric gems.
Angeac-Charente was once home to a vast ecosystem of dinosaurs, invertebrates and vegetation AFP/GEORGES GOBET The largest land animals ever to roam the Earth, sauropods were massive plant-eating dinosaurs with a long neck and tail, towering up to 18m tall."It cost me a bit of money, because I had promised to bring champagne if it was complete," said Jean-Francois Tournepiche, the operations coordinator at what he calls"one of Europe's biggest dinosaur sites".
The bone's"preservation and perfect fossilisation makes it really unique", said Ronan Allain, a paleontologist at the French Museum of Natural History in Paris.PREHISTORIC ECOSYSTEM
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